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Examples
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Placating one nagging creditor may lessen your aggravation, but makes no sense if you're still left with overwhelming debt.
Richard Gaudreau: Bankruptcy Is the Cost of the Way the Credit Card Industry Does Business Richard Gaudreau 2011
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Placating words, inspiring speeches and promises of mutual respect is most welcomed and an encouraging progress towards partnership.
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Placating our PROGRESSIVE sensibilities, is definitely a much much bigger issue ....
In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama 2009
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Placating big business en route to social reform is like downing a flask of whiskey en route to kicking alcoholism.
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Placating big business en route to social reform is like downing a flask of whiskey en route to kicking alcoholism.
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Placating the human rights folks while enriching the market babies doesn't fool anyone - it's a scam.
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Placating extremism has its price in a world that thrives on information and globalized reporting.
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Placating Christian conservatives, attracting unaffiliated voters, and not looking like the "stodgy, white man" ticket is a tall order for a party whose most recent choice was Dick Cheney.
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Placating criminals and con-men does nothing but encourage them.
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Placating them enough to bring them in line could be a tall order for the Republican presidential nominee who has a checkered relationship with the right wing of his party.
"No convention today!... OK, it's on!... The economy's sound... No, wait, it's going to fall apart unless I go to Washington tomorrow!... " Ann Althouse 2008
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